Yesterday, TeaChatters voted 3 to 1 in favor of Sushi. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.

Welcome one and all to another Saturday on TeaDay. So filler up and share what's in your cup today...all day. Be sure to check out what everyone else is sipping as well. If you need to, you can also reflect back on your TeaDay.

Today, we are asked, why do we drink tea. Is it love, is it health, caffeine, a combination. What is most important, what is least important.

Going with an old stand-by today; Red Rose...when I get home, I'll break into my new box of black tea samples and see if I can keep the streak alive of having some fantastic new teas to try out. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

When I found tea (by which I mean GOOD tea, not bags), I could find nothing wrong with it. It was/is the perfect alternative to anything I was drinking at the time. Nowadays, even if someone found a profound health drawback to tea, I probably wouldn't stop.

I love tea, I wouldn't drink it if I didn't, period. Having said that, I need the caffeine since I don't drink coffee, and it's much healthier than sodas or something really bad for me like, say, moonshine.

So some advice, please, TCers: I'm going to a campground all day today, OMG, with the children. We are not spending the night, for various reasons, but will be there for hours and hours and hours and .... So the question is, to take green tea, should I boil water and put it in a thermos, trusting it will cool to appropriate temp, and take tea separately? Or should I brew it up and take it in said thermos?

Salsero wrote:Shu Puerh can be darker than coffee and stronger tasting.

i saw this post and recognized a familiar face:

I am not really in love with this one. It feels awkward for some reason. Keep burning my fingers.

Why I started: I was working a job where I was drinnking a lot of caffeine to stay awake! I was sick of soda/coffee and looked for an alternative. I guess if I were concerned about something healthy I could have had a V-8. Can you imagine guzzling 4-6 V-8's during the workday???? I'd be a bigger mess than I was drinking a couple diet cokes!

I love tea, but also love those nifty antioxidants. I also enjoy the caffeine and the fact that somehow tea caffeine doesn't make me jittery the way coffee does.

This morning I'm drinking Ceylon OP, Adawatte Estate. This tea has gotten me excited about Ceylons again. I hadn't been drinking them for a while, but now I can't get enough. It prompted me to order some of Adagio's Ceylon Sonata, which also rocks.